Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked up off the coast of Iceland five years later. It had been driven along by the moving ice-floes...
...great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from the influences about him. The rise of President Roosevelt to power has been entirely due to his aggressiveness. Mr. Wise's acquaintance with the next President, William H. Taft, began when...
...Springfield game last year was a narrow escape. Springfield scored first after ten minutes of play in the second half by blocking two kicks in succession. Harvard succeeded in scoring shortly after, and won the game by a goal from the field. No one left the Stadium with any doubt but that Springfield had unquestionably the better team, but the fortune of the game went against them and they lost a well-deserved victory...
...race against the United States Naval Academy crew at Annapolis on the Severn on April 22 was won by the University crew by a narrow margin ever a two-mile course, after a bad start. The fact that Harvard rowed a slower stroke than Annapolis throughout the race speaks for itself. In the Cornell race the Harvard crew out did itself in most inauspicious water. Thus when the eight went to the Thames this season, it was in a much more fully developed state than it had been for a number of years. Fish's suspension will handicap the crew...
...yard dash Evans of Dartmouth gained a lead on the first stretch and won in 51 4-5 seconds by a narrow margin, with F. M. deSelding '10 second. M. B. Van Brunt '08 was a close third...